Magic Online Bug Blog November 16, 2017

What Is the Magic Online Bug Blog?

The "Bug Blog" is a running list of updates, alongside a list of Magic Online known issues. Here you'll find a list of emergent new issues, details around issue statuses when applicable, known issue workarounds, a running tally of known issues updates, as well as the full Known Issues List. The Bug Blog posts to MTGO.com every other Thursday.

The Known Issues List below has been updated to reflect the "Change Log" section, so refer to that for the most up-to-date statuses on Magic Online known issues. If you want to see the history of fixed known issues, refer to the archive.

Newly Fixed Known Issues

Trinisphere interacts incorrectly when 3 or more cost-reduction effects apply to spells being cast.

Conqueror's Galleon will incorrectly return to the battlefield transformed under its owner's control.

Certain Treasure prompts do not display mana in WUBRG order.

Known Issues List

The following is a list of known issues on Magic Online. Our goal with the known issues list is to give players insight into what we're working on, as well as helping players avoid problematic bugs and performance issues.

Please note, this is not a comprehensive list of known issues; it simply contains the ones that we feel players are most likely to encounter. If you're curious behind the specific rationale of which issues are included, we talk a little bit more about it here.

The Magic Online known issues list is divided up into several categories.

Client and Gameplay known issues are based around the client and broad mechanical interactions. Each known issue is also sorted by where you're likely to encounter it within the client; those categories are listed below. You can search the below table by keyword, or click each header to sort alphabetically.

Cardset known issues are based around specific cards or groups of cards that are not working as intended. Each known issue is also sorted by which format is likely to see the greatest impact from that bug. You can search the below table for specific formats, or click each header to sort alphabetically.

Magic Online Player Rewards Boosters and Treasure Chests can combine into the same object in the collection scene. Workaround: Check "Show Versions Seperately" in the versions filter when viewing cards.

Collection

Ongoing

Switching between different views and non-default sorting in binders can yield erratic results.

Collection

Ongoing

If a game ends with less than 2 minutes remaining on the clock, you are unable to draw extra cards or reveal your hand.

General (Duel Scene)

Ongoing

Sunbird's Invocation will not allow you to select a card if you have fewer cards in your library than the original spell's Converted Mana Cost.

During sideboarding, users are unable to submit decks that have been loaded from the saved deck list. The workaround for this is to make a change to the deck, such as adding a card and then removing it.

Cardset (Limited)

Ongoing

Casting a second copy of Gideon's Intervention causes the first to become non-functional, allowing the named card to be cast and deal damage.

Cardset (Standard)

Ongoing

Thornbow Archer is incorrectly granting 1 life to opponents that do not control an Elf, rather than causing them to lose 1 life.

Cardset (Modern)

Ongoing

Selecting yes to anything other than artifacts with two Storage Matrices in play causes the game to soft lock.

Cardset (Modern)

Ongoing

When Vizier of Many Faces copies a token creature that was created with embalm, the Vizier will display with no art.

Cardset (Limited)

Ongoing

Some users are experiencing difficulties confirming a password change through the link provided in the password reset email.

Cards exiled by the triggered abilities of a number of cards which exile a card from their controller's library appear to be coming from the opponent's library instead. This affects cards such as Bomat Courier, Windbrisk Heights, and other similar cards. This is a display issue only.

Cardset (Modern, Standard, Legacy)

Ongoing

Exporting a deck with a very long folder pathname (over 240 characters) gives a confusing error message regarding the exported deck's file extension.

Creatures that enter the battlefield with counters based on the number of creatures in the graveyard (for example, Undergrowth Scavenger) do not count themselves if they are put onto the battlefield directly from the graveyard.

Cardset (Pauper)

Ongoing

If a token creature stops being blocked (perhaps because all blocking creatures were destroyed), it will return to a pile with other identical tokens if any are present. Once there, the game log is the only way to identify which creature was blocked. To identify this creature, players can point their cursor to the name of the token in the game log entry that identifies the attacking creatures and locate the creature that no longer has a blocking creature associated with it.

Duel Scene

Ongoing

Some cards with the madness ability do not display the correct reminder text. Notably, this includes Fiery Temper.

Cardset (General)

Ongoing

Odric, Lunarch Marshal's triggered ability ignores the hexproof ability on a creature if it only has it temporarily.

Cardset (Standard)

Ongoing

When some cards with madness are discarded, the triggered ability does not display the madness cost while on the stack. Players can find this information by right-clicking the card or by viewing the game log.

Cardset (General)

Ongoing

Abilities that trigger from a permanent becoming the target of a spell or ability (such as that of Silverfur Partisan) are not triggered by copies of spells automatically put onto the stack. For example: if a player controls Zada, Hedron Grinder and casts a spell on Zada, when Zada's triggered ability resolves, the player will be prompted to choose targets for the copies made by Zada. If the player chooses targets for the copies individually, Silverfur Partisan's ability will trigger correctly. If the player clicks OK to automatically choose the targets, the Partisan's ability won't trigger.

Cardset (Standard)

Ongoing

Fork in the Road fails to display the destination zones of the chosen lands in the game log.

Eldrazi Spawn and Scions created by cards from the Battle for Zendikar and Rise of the Eldrazi sets display "Add {1} to your mana pool" instead of "Add {C} to your mana pool" upon zoom. As this change in template was not a functional change, these tokens continue to function correctly.

Mass Polymorph incorrectly does not count exiled commanders when determining how many creature cards to put onto the battlefield.

Cardset (Commander)

Ongoing

When a player casts Kozilek, the Great Distortion, its triggered ability incorrectly triggers if the casting player has seven or more cards in hand. Upon resolution, the player will not draw cards if he or she already has seven or more cards in hand.

Myriad Landscape's activated ability incorrectly allows a player to put two basic lands that do not share a land type onto the battlefield.

Cardset (Commander)

Ongoing

Under rare circumstances, a player who controls two creatures that can't attack alone (such as Bonded Construct) but must attack with one of them will be able to attack with only that creature rather than being required to attack with both.

Cardset (General)

Ongoing

When Entreat the Angels is on the stack with 0 chosen for X, the blue text that typically indicates the value of X does not appear.

Cardset (Legacy)

Ongoing

Magic Origins planeswalkers used as commanders will not return to the battlefield after exiling themselves. WORKAROUND: Players can avoid this issue by making sure the “Exile zone, not command zone” option is selected.

Cardset (Commander)

Ongoing

Atarka's Command's first activated ability doesn't appear in the Effect zone after it resolves.

Cardset (Modern)

Ongoing

Cards cast with conspire that require a player to sacrifice a creature as an additional cost to cast, such as Life's Legacy and Momentous Fall, incorrectly look at the power and toughness of the last creature clicked for conspire.

Cardset (Commander)

Ongoing

Casting Sylvan Primordial causes the game to be locked in a multiplayer game if there are no legal targets for one player.

If a permanent enters the battlefield as a copy of a permanent that had a choice made as it entered (such as Door of Destinies or Painter's Servant), the copy correctly allows the controller to make a new choice, but the abilities of the copy that refer to that choice do not function correctly.

Cardset (Commander)

Ongoing

If Deceiver of Form's triggered ability turns creatures into copies of a legendary creature, the legend rule fails to apply to the copies.

Cardset (Commander, Limited, Standard)

Ongoing

The mana abilities of Wall of Roots and Kozilek's Translator cannot be activated while paying the mana cost of a spell or ability. Players can still activate these abilities at any time that player has priority.

Cardset (Modern, Standard)

Ongoing

If a player attempts to sacrifice a pile of Eldrazi babies (Scions or Spawn) at once, only one of those tokens will be sacrificed.

Cardset (Limited, Modern, Standard)

Ongoing

Cardset | If Vesuva copies a land with a static ability and then is later turned into a basic land (perhaps by a Blood Moon or Spreading Seas), that static ability will not be removed. Triggered and activated abilities are correctly removed.

Cardset (Modern)

Ongoing

When some cards with madness are discarded, the triggered ability does not display the madness cost while on the stack. Players can find this information by right-clicking the card or by viewing the game log.

Duel Scene

Ongoing

If a creature enters the battlefield and then gains haste, it no longer indicates that it entered the battlefield that turn.

Cardset (General)

Ongoing

Creatures with a protection ability incorrectly display that ability twice.

Cardset (General)

Ongoing

When a double-faced creature is copied by a non-token creature, the copy is incorrectly resistant to effects that would turn it face down, such as Ixidron’s triggered ability. Only double-faced cards cannot be turned face down.

Cardset (General)

Ongoing

The Search Tool is not present in the Other Products tab of a trade

Trade

Ongoing

Dropping out of a game does not concede the game if the player is not the first one to drop out

Duel Scene (Commander)

Ongoing

Under rare circumstances, the Game Details window will display buttons to replay matches instead of a round timer or standings. As a temporary workaround, logging out and back in resolves the issue.

Play Lobby

Ongoing

Land cards that use the multicolor land frame but do not have mana symbols in their rules text do not appear when filtering to display colorless cards. These lands do appear when filtering for land cards, however.

Collection

Ongoing

If a player's spell or ability causes his or her own cards to be revealed, those cards are incorrectly not added to the player's own Revealed Cards area. The player's opponent should still see the revealed cards correctly.

Duel Scene

Ongoing

It is visually difficult to tell which set of blockers an attacking player is ordering when ordering multiple sets of multiple blocking creatures. WORKAROUND: You must start by ordering blockers for the left-most attacking creature, then hit OK to move on to the next attacking creature to the right.

Duel Scene

Ongoing

When face-down cards are given an activated ability, the art displays incorrectly on the stack when that ability is activated.

Duel Scene

Ongoing

When casting a spell, if there is any mana already in the player's pool, the most recently produced colored mana is automatically applied to the spell first. For example, if a player taps a Cavern of Souls (naming Human), then an Island, then casts Delver of Secrets, the blue mana applied to the Delver's mana cost will be that from the Island. If the player tapped the Island, then the Cavern, the Cavern's mana would be applied to the spell, and it would be appropriately uncounterable.

Duel Scene

Ongoing

While paying the mana cost for a card with delve, players cannot remove cards from the delve selection without canceling the casting process and starting over.

Duel Scene

Ongoing

If a player makes a selection, then reverses that selection with the "undo" keyboard shortcut (default: CTRL+Z), the game log will sometimes incorrectly show both cards the player selected. Notably, this includes Oath of Nissa and similar effects that ask a player to put one of a small number of cards into their hand.